Ok, so here's how I'm thinking this is going to work. It's a bit different, somewhat of an experiment, but should still be fun since it's still fighting the Warlord. No stupid point-and-click genre changes here.

When in the Predator Drone, everyone has access to all of the powers it has copied. However, each power used has a power drain to it. The drain is equal to the power level of the person the power originally belongs to. There are ways to recharge that I will reveal in the actual game.

I will compile what you guys do together and do a bit of interpreting to adjust for incompatibilities, but try to pay attention to what the last person to move did, and adjust your post accordingly if you can.

Goal is to keep him busy for a set number of turns until heavy-hitter reinforcements can arrive. Then part three can start. It's been pretty clearly established that he's out of a nuclear fleet's league, let alone the league of extraordinary rookies. So beat him up, survive, watch your power consumption.

This was done by The Fox Brother (FA link here: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/thefoxbro/). It’s supposed to be of Kolt when he was just starting out. That’s why he doesn’t have his gauntlet yet, why his tail is so bushy, and why his fur colors are so pale (since Concertians actually get LESS pale as they grow older). It’s also why he has that little pouch thing on the left, Mythos hasn’t developed Hammerspace tech yet, so anything he has to carry goes in that pouch. What do you think?

On the first part though, this isn't the third phase. The second phase is just starting.

What you've experienced so far? That was just the cut scenes.

I have the fight separated into four phases for music purposes. Phase one was the normal Warlord, Phase two was the Warlord becoming a Proto-Avatar (which admittedly is basically just a cutscene), Phase three is the fight between the Warlord and the Predator, and Phase four is the reinforcements (which will probably ALSO just be a cutscene). Also, which of the four songs I pick do you think fits the most?

It has to be this way, definitely. The tone has a weight to it. It's fast paced, but definitely still serious. The lyrics also match well with how there are some parallels between the Predator Drone and the Warlord.

And honestly I think the Cleric Beast theme should be saved for when the Warlord is further along in the Proto-Avatar stage, just before the transition to full avatar.

As you can see, I decided to post because I literally can't take a single day off without going crazy from boredom. So you see some of the mechanics: You have two things to keep track of. Power and Shielding. Power is the more important of the two. Using powers will drain power, with flight being a constant drain of 2% per turn. Other powers drain energy based on what the power level is listed as in the owner's character sheet. Traci's super speed is a 6, so Kolt using it drained 6% power.

Power can be regenerated. Ask Predator how.

Shields will deplete when you get hit. The Warlord will hit harder as the turns go on and he absorbs energy. Chewing on the Predator's head was a light attack in this case since the Warlord doesn't have much leverage or momentum in his actual attacks.

cruelty potential aside, every vertebrate i know of has major arteries running through the pelvis. if those stab wounds are coming faster than the healing factor can close them there should be a very real possibility of blood loss.

_________________'Lard of The Rings' is probably the most entertaining typo I've ever read.

cruelty potential aside, every vertebrate i know of has major arteries running through the pelvis. if those stab wounds are coming faster than the healing factor can close them there should be a very real possibility of blood loss.

Kolt is aware of that, but he’s also aware that when you’re facing a regenerator on the scale of the Warlord, doing damage quicker than they can heal is kinda what you should aim for. In the draft I wrote before I realized Kol was using the arms, he also went for the Warlord’s spine and eyes. Kolt fights dirty when the stakes get high.

I was trying to think of what this sequence reminded me of (a group of heroes having to become one to defeat a major villain) other than Power Rangers. Then I remembered.

This clip opens with the Heroes allies holding back the Villains' minions before the Villain arrives. The heroes are becoming one. And the one they're becoming isn't quite the one they planned, leading to one of the strangest final battles in live action TV.

Believe it or not, I didn’t intend Kolt’s statement to come off as dirty. He was supposed to be referring to the fact that with the way the Predator works, each of them could control a different part of the body at the same time, and how he likes the teamwork it lets them do. But because me and him are both idiots when it comes to stuff like this, he came off as a lot more suggestive. I will be addressing this in my next post, assuming nothing happens with the fight to distract me.

So, interesting fact: Cannon to the story, Varanians are capable of consuming up to 80% of their considerable body mass in a sitting. I didn't really know this, but that is actually how much a Komodo Dragon (the species they were mostly based around) is actually able to consume. I actually don't think I planned that. The difference would be that Varanians have a higher Cranial Kinesis, more like a snake than a Komodo Dragon.(In hindsight I think I looked that up before when fleshing out Varanian biology and that's why I set it to 80% in the first place...)

Normally a Varanian of the Warlord's size would be unable to even consider actually swallowing a robot let alone one of the Predator drone's size, but then again he is possessed by the aspect of greed, so...

Anywho, I think next turn will probably reveal one of the Cupiditas's darker powers.

my logic here is that one person can only make two, but seven people amalgamated into one should in theory be able to make 14.

like if Toga and Monoma both copied Bakugo, he wouldn't just stop being able to explode things, there'd just be three times as many explosions flying around.

that said, it means a minimum of five out of the seven of us need to be maintaining them every turn... If welsh is okay with it, jaken and kol makes 2, and we can probably treat the 'absorbed but idle' traci as number 3... leaving jenny kolt tatianna or ulrich, unless i've forgotten someone.

_________________'Lard of The Rings' is probably the most entertaining typo I've ever read.

My aim was to get him progressively stronger for the majority of the fight, with him eventually becoming too strong to do damage to without using Titan's strength. The final part of the fight is about opening him up for opportunities for Titan to attack while trying not to get pulverized in one or two hits. Stunlocking him is one way to do that, but there are others, and there are even other things you can do to damage the Warlord more directly, albeit unconventionally.

And the stunlocking won't work forever. You guys aren't giving yourselves enough credit. You've lasted this long because you've adapted to his adaptations. When something doesn't work, you've tried something else. When knocking him off balance didn't work, you thought of the chem grenades. When fighting up close didn't work, you fought at a range. When energy attacks started making them stronger, you came up with the cryo grenade idea. You guys are clever, and you've caught me off guard a lot of times. I wasn't expecting the portal solution, but it worked at least for a bit.

If you’re wondering why Liz is acting like taking care of Snowball would be so difficult, it’s because she has no idea what taking care of an animal entails. Hivemind says cats are low maintenance, but she doesn’t know if that’s compared to something else or not. This is just another aspect of this universe where she’s completely clueless.

Not sure if that would actually work, but knowing the Kaal, it might at least make it more difficult for him to continue. Thing about Cupiditas (and most aspects) is he is largely instinctive and primitive. He exists in each individual Kaal node as much as he exists in the colony mind.

Still though, if he wants to continue, he's got to corrupt each individual node separately without using intellectual persuasion. Not going to be easy to do, and he doesn't exactly have time to waste around.

But the aspects aren't psychic. They exist within. You aren't hearing the aspect telepathically communicate from outside, they exist inside the very substance of the mind, primitive or complex. He can speak in your mind because that's where it "lives".

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